Publius Cornelius Scipio

Publius Cornelius Scipio (260 BC-211 BC) was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic and the father of Scipio Africanus.

Biography
Publius Cornelius Scipio was the son of Lucius Cornelius Scipio, and he was the father of Scipio Africanus and Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus. He served as consul in 218 BC, the first year of the Second Punic War, and he was defeated and severely wounded by Hannibal's Carthaginian army at the Battle of Ticinus in northern Italy. In 217 BC, he won several victories over the Carthaginians in Spain and strengthened Rome's hold on the Iberian Peninsula, but he and his older brother Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus were killed at the Battle of the Upper Baetis in 211 BC.